Worth the Wait Quotes

“You really do unique small talk," she said as he caught up to her, walked side by side. "Well, these things keep a conversation well lubricated. Only thing worse than a dry fuck is small talk.”
― Joey W. Hill, Worth the Wait

“He met her eyes. “Even if I’m deep in my head, I still need you, Julie. That’s how I knew when I fell in love with you. For the first time in my life I need someone so much I can’t turn it off and convince myself otherwise.”
― Joey W. Hill, Worth the Wait

“When you do, you realize there are six billion people wandering around, six billion chances to form connections, friendships, shared experiences.” He shrugged. “If you shut yourself away from everyone and say ‘I’m lonely’, it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, when the rest of the world is waiting outside that door.”
― Joey W. Hill, Worth the Wait

“Only thing worse than a dry fuck is small talk.”
― Joey W. Hill, Worth The Wait

“Now she wanted a passion that started as fire and melted into warmth. A steady heat, holding fast for a lifetime against the coldness of the world. Without that hearth, small disappointments could magnify and link, forming a chain that could strangle the heart.”
― Joey W. Hill, Worth The Wait

“God, he was going to destroy her. But maybe for the first time in her life, she’d found a man worth shattering for.”
― Joey W. Hill, Worth the Wait

“We’re all going to die, love. I don’t know anyone who’s gotten out of this life alive”
― Joey W. Hill, Worth the Wait

“She traced the dragon’s body on his biceps where it transitioned into rope. “I just thought it would be more difficult. After all this time, the heartache, the waiting, the despairing and giving up, the pure pissed-offness of dealing with near misses…" She blew out a breath. “And there it is. With you, easy as breathing. ‘I’m in love with you.’ You said it and meant it. It changes the universe, but the way throwing a stone in a pond does. All those ripples. It's…amazing.”
She frowned and cocked her head. “There should at least be dramatic music.”
"I can retract it if you want. Brood for a while, play commitment paranoia games, alienate you so we break up, sort of, and then I chase you down before you make some monumental decision, like moving back to New York, or signing up for a three year stint in the merchant marines. Then we can have a big makeup scene.“
She pursed her lips. "Complete with dramatic music.”
"Absolutely. If I could afford it, I’d hire John Williams to come up with the score.“
"You’d do all that for me?”
"Hell, no.” He snorted, puffing a short, playful breath against her. “I’d tie you up and keep you in my basement until you contracted Stockholm syndrome and couldn’t breathe without me.“
She tipped her head back, sobering. "Sometimes, it feels like I can’t. Crazy, right?”
He put his mouth on hers and took her air in the best kind of way, all while giving it back to her.
at her, boyishly appealing, but then sobered.
"We’re normal, extraordinary people,” he said. “It took us a while, but we always knew what it would look like when it happened. The simplicity of it is what makes it extraordinary. A tadpole gets legs and walks on land, and evolution begins. All in a simple blink, the whole world changes.”
― Joey W. Hill, Worth the Wait

“At one time, the first step in courtship was asking permission to write to the person who interested your affections,”
― Joey W. Hill, Worth The Wait

“You're floating on a cloud, about to explode like a star, scattering your light over the universe. I'll feel the beauty of it, but you are far above and beyond me. You're what I worship.”
― Joey W. Hill, Worth The Wait